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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?






2. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?






3. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






4. What is the recording tool for all foods/beverages consumed in last 24 hours includes time - location - portion?






5. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






6. When does BMR decrease?






7. Where can you get more vitamin D?






8. What is normal albumin levels?






9. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






10. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






11. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






12. What is normal BMI?






13. What foods are needed for pellegra - dermatitis - diarrhea - and dementia?






14. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






15. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






16. What is the function of vitamin C?






17. What milk products are avoided in the pyramid and not a good supply of calcium?






18. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?






19. What foods have high quality protein?






20. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






21. What does DASH stand for?






22. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






23. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






24. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






25. How much grains are to be eaten per day?






26. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






27. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






28. Name six sources of grains






29. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






30. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






31. What are healthy sources of fats?






32. What is RDA of protein?






33. What is the function of vitamin E?






34. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






35. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






36. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






37. This tool assesses each body system for nutrent excess or deficiency






38. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






39. How long should a food record or journal is analyzed for nutrient content?






40. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






41. What type of people need extra protein?






42. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






43. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?






44. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






45. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






46. What type of fat is to kept to an all time low for consumption?






47. Sources of fats






48. How much milk is to be consumed per day?






49. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






50. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy